concepts of staging, costumes, and acting

…the United States and the Polish Laboratory Theatre, as well as the Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium in Holstebro, Den., and other groups in North America and Europe, lived cooperatively, shared a common view of life, and sought to reflect that view in their productions. This shared life is superficially reminiscent of the…

The other major tendency in today’s theatre arises from an investigation of the sources of the theatre’s uniqueness and strength. The prophet of this search was the French dramatist and poet Antonin Artaud, with his vision of a total, visceral theatre with…

…production of Akropolis at the Polish Laboratory Theatre in 1962 as a poetic paraphrase of an extermination camp. There is no hero—and no individuality—among the characters. The costumes were bags full of holes covering naked bodies, and the holes were lined with material suggesting torn flesh; wooden shoes covered the…

work of Grotowski

…of productions staged by the Polish Laboratory Theatre of Wrocław. A leading exponent of audience involvement, he set up emotional confrontations between a limited group of spectators and the actors; the performers were disciplined masters of bodily and vocal contortions.